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7th August 2020 - New York Sewer Systems; Turtle’s Lair - 2:13am
It keeps happening.
Over and over.
Over and over and over.
Again and again and again.
It’s getting harder to stop the impulse to just…
Aha … there’s already been so much death was he already a little crazy.
Ahahahhahahahahahaaa!!!!
Maybe a little.
It won’t stop!
Nothing will stop it!
Everything he tries won’t stop it!
Everyone dies no matter what!
Are the loops telling him to take different approaches?
Drastic measures even…?
Instead of trying to stop the invasion outright does he need to look at it from a different perspective?
What kind of perspective though?
He’s done this so many it wouldn’t really matter if he tried something different…
If it got him closer to figuring out what the loops want of him then so be it…
He’ll do anything to stop them.
He’ll do anything to save his family…
Even if it means … taking such drastic measures…
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“LEO!” The blue bandana wearing turtle turned around to face his older brother. His younger brothers close behind the largest turtle.
”Oh, hey guys!” Leo exclaimed, putting his sword on his shoulder as a smile spread across his face.
Donnie inched further back; expression twisted as if he was ready to puke while Mikey hid more behind their older brother.
Raph swallowed, staring down at his younger brother with an uneasy look. “Leo … how could you?” His voice couldn’t hide how devastated he felt.
How it was to see this scene before him.
And Leo in the middle of it all.
The slider tilted his head, confused at the question. “How could I ‘what’, Raph?”
Raph turned his head away from facing Leo, fist clenched at his side. “Why? Why did you DO THIS?!” His voice getting louder at the end.
He gestured at what was behind the slider.
Leo turned his head to look behind him, unfazed by the scene. His eyes cold and unconcerned with the amount of bloodshed behind him. His plastron was splattered with the red liquid. His sword evidence that he was indeed the culprit.
”They were becoming a nuisance,” Leo stated with no emotion in his voice causing Raph to flinch. “So, I cut them down. Every single one of them!” He exclaimed as if he had enjoyed doing it.
A light was in his eyes that the brothers had never seen before was there.
It terrified them.
What happened to their pun-loving, goofy brother?
Or was this a secret side of him they just never knew about?
There was no way this was the same Leo they had known for years.
”Leo, why?” Mikey finally spoke up from behind Raph.
Leo looked over to his youngest brother; eyes boring into the box turtle which caused a shiver to run down his shell.
”Why? Why?” Leo muttered the word to himself as if trying to figure out why himself. “I don’t know, but they deserved it!”
That was a lie.
He knew why.
It was to hopefully stop the loop.
Though he wouldn’t know until his next unfortunate death.
His brothers didn’t need to know that he had to stoop this low to stop a possible invasion.
He hated it.
He hated himself for it.
They probably hated him.
They were already scared of him.
He could see it on their faces.
They were very open about it.
But it was what he had to do to save them from his horrible mistake after all…
He had to stoop to killing.
He just wanted this end.
’Please … I’ve suffered enough. Please. PLEASE!’ He closed his eyes as he pleaded to himself, hoping that this had worked.
However the cycle would continue anyway…